Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2010-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/19/2010 11:47 AM, Afflictedd2 wrote: Akakima wrote: After updating gcc in my cygwin installation, i discovered that i cannot run gcc.exe from the native winxp console (cmd.exe). gcc.exe has been replaced by gcc-3.exe. Of course, this works fine under bash and ash, but it does not work a

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2010-10-19 Thread Afflictedd2
ygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/side-effects-after-installing-gcc-3.4.4.999-tp22282325p30001579.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem report

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-06-04 16:05Z, Dave Korn wrote: > enovack wrote: [using gcc in eclipse; problem not solved by invoking 'gcc-3.exe'] >> It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a >> previous version of cygwin installed. > > Sorry about that. Primarily the goal of cygwin is to

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread enovack
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Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Korn
enovack wrote: > It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a > previous version of cygwin installed. Sorry about that. Primarily the goal of cygwin is to provide a linux-like environment and linux-like behaviour, and from that point of view the ability to switch the

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread enovack
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Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Korn
enovack wrote: > I'm having a similar issue with trying to get the GNU g++ and gcc compiler's > to work with Eclipse and Netbeans. Both report that the file is not valid or > not found when compiling a C or C++ file. > > I have just downloaded the latest production release of Cygwin and installed

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-06-04 Thread enovack
ml > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/side-effects-after-installing-gcc-3.4.4.999-tp22282325p23870621.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing l

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Akakima wrote: > But, i have installed 1.7 yesterday evening. > > I created shortcuts to dir.exe, ls.exe, uname.exe and users.exe to see > if gcc was the only program impacted. > > No change. After the program has done his job, cmd is waiting for input, > without displaying its prompt. > > So i

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-03 Thread Akakima
"Dave Korn" wrote:> Then again, it may be a sign that we're missing a flush somewhere in the Cygwin DLL. Are you trying with 1.5 or 1.7? If you haven't tried 1.7 yet, using 1.5. But, i have installed 1.7 yesterday evening. I created shortcuts to dir.exe, ls.exe, uname.exe and users.exe to s

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-03 Thread Owen Rees
--On Monday, March 02, 2009 19:08:58 + Dave Korn wrote: Ah, look, it's not that the prompt is getting lost: it's just that GCC's output comes out after the prompt for some reason. That looks as if gcc launches a child process then exits without waiting for it. The command processor issues

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
Akakima wrote: > I agree 99.99 % with you. :-). the 0.01 is about would you please not > totally forget that cygwin is running on a Win32 platform. (no offense > here, no joke, no disrecpect, ...) Absolutely, no offence taken, and I'm sorry if my earlier post seemed that I had done so. We of

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Akakima
"Dave Korn" wrote: Windows will do because that's outside my control. (And I don't think it would make sense to avoid using Linux features in Cygwin just so that stuff will work from DOS!) I agree 99.99 % with you. :-). the 0.01 is about would you please not totally forget that cygwin is r

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Akakima
"Dave Korn" wrote: Windows will do because that's outside my control. (And I don't think it would make sense to avoid using Linux features in Cygwin just so that stuff will work from DOS!) I agree 99.99 % with you. :-). the 0.01 is about would you please not totally forget that cygwin i

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
Akakima wrote: > Why "of course" ?. You said in a previous post that the update would go > without change in behaviour. Sorry, I guess it was only implied by my post: the behaviour of *Cygwin* applications hasn't changed. I can't make guarantees about what DOS or Windows will do because that'

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Akakima
"Charles Wilson" ...which you refuse to use. I don't think you're going to get a whole lot of sympathy for your "problem" -- and I'm sure Dave is not going to respin gcc-3.4.4-999 to "fix" it. -- Chuck Ok. I was not asking for gcc being respined. Thanks anyway. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Akakima
"Dave Korn" wrote: Nope, of course not. Use "gcc-3.exe" instead. Dave, English is not my native language (I guess you know that!) So i want to add that i am not critisizing but just stating what i want and what i found. :-) Why "of course" ?. You said in a previous post that the update wou

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Akakima wrote: > cygwin have more programs and a better "unix" support. ...which you refuse to use. I don't think you're going to get a whole lot of sympathy for your "problem" -- and I'm sure Dave is not going to respin gcc-3.4.4-999 to "fix" it. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-02 Thread Akakima
"Greg Chicares" If gcc version 3.x is what you want, why not just downgrade from 3.4.4-999 to gcc-3.4.4-3? AIUI, the only difference between the two is something you don't want: That's what i did (downgraded). Still, i wanted to make someone aware of the fact that the update was the cause o

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Akakima wrote: > After updating gcc in my cygwin installation, i discovered > that i cannot run gcc.exe from the native winxp console (cmd.exe). > > gcc.exe has been replaced by gcc-3.exe. And by a link. > Of course, this works fine under bash and ash, but it does not work anymore > under cmd.

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-01 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-03-02 05:34Z, Akakima wrote: > After updating gcc in my cygwin installation, i discovered > that i cannot run gcc.exe from the native winxp console (cmd.exe). > > gcc.exe has been replaced by gcc-3.exe. If gcc version 3.x is what you want, why not just downgrade from 3.4.4-999 to gcc-3.4.

side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

2009-03-01 Thread Akakima
After updating gcc in my cygwin installation, i discovered that i cannot run gcc.exe from the native winxp console (cmd.exe). gcc.exe has been replaced by gcc-3.exe. Of course, this works fine under bash and ash, but it does not work anymore under cmd.exe. since i prefer to work under cmd.exe